Nov 10, 2020
As a young girl growing up in Liverpool, Ruth McCartney, would sit around the kitchen table with her mother, Angie, helping to deal with millions of fan mail for The Beatles – and earn a little bit of pocket money. It was a matter of keeping it in the family when Paul McCartney is your stepbrother.
Ruth was four years old when she found herself with a front row seat to Beatlemania. Her mother had married Paul’s father, Jim, after a short courtship in 1964, and it was just another day when John Lennon would come over to stay or Jimi Hendrix arrive unannounced on the doorstep.
Today, Ruth runs creative digital agency McCartney Multimedia with her husband Martin and mother, Angie.
Their first client was David Cassidy who was a close friend - she set up and ran his first website. She talks passionately about their friendship which started when they met in an elevator and tells how she immediately took him home to meet her mother. Ruth shares wonderful memories of their time together and how David reacted when - out of the blue - Paul phoned him in London.
Although not having direct dialect coaching, when David was preparing for his acclaimed role in Blood Brothers, he would call Ruth adopting a Liverpudlian accent.
Ruth studied piano, guitar and dance before becoming a “pop sensation” in Russia.
https://www.davidcassidylegacy.com/